The document discusses using open source software and sharing content to move away from closed "silos" where information is restricted and proprietary. It provides examples of open source tools like Drupal and platforms for sharing content through social media, microblogging and APIs. Reasons to adopt open source and share content openly include destroying closed data monopolies, sharing knowledge, and benefiting from network effects by reaching more users and reusing content in many ways and places on the internet.

1. Get out of the Silo: Using Open Source Software to Share Content Using Open Source Software to Share Content Boris Mann VP of Product Development Raincity Studios http://www.raincitystudios.com

2. Interactive (This IS theoretically the “relationships” day, isn’t it?)

3. Lessig / Hardt Style (which means I’ll do a lot of talking and clicking and there will be a LOT of slides)

4. About Silo Sharing Open Source and maybe Open Data, Data Portability, the Linked Data / Linking Open Data Semantic Web? See Dr. Djun Kim in the other room

5. Interactive (were you hoping I was going to forget?)

6. Who are you?

7. Who am I? Bias alert! Blogger (which is kind of like a writer?) Open Source Evangelist Fan of Drupal Technologist, Entreprenuer Vancouver as high tech hub Addicted to UNconferences (maybe that means Conference 2.0)

8. Silo One piece of content, one site “Closed” data Proprietary formats? Maybe everyone uses XML and we can just do transforms Business models that don’t rely on or encourage network effects

9. What happens to silos? I No external access Restricted access Monopoly? Standards (or at least, schemas) RSS, APIs Network effects! Closed Data Open Data

10. What happens to silos? II Closed Data Open Data Loss of incentive! Why use the closed data when open is easier, more accessible, more usable? End of monopoly (end of business?) Some percentage of critical mass RSS, APIs, Aggregation aka Sharing Network effects! No turning back, it’s all open

11. Language Silos What happens when you search the web in English? …you only see the English content Growth of other languages Reaching more users (or even reaching in the first place) This is maybe the most challenging, but also most interesting silo

12. Vancouver

13. Other Silos? For you intranet folks, how about organization / institutional buy in!

14. Share Repurpose your content mobile, PDF, etc. – digital workflows, XML, etc. Re-use your content set it free with RSS feeds, widgets, and social tools (and appropriate licensing) Remix your content Mashups and more – or even let your users play

15. Wait, what are we sharing? Text well, except for that whole multilingual thing Audio? Video? Functionality?!? Application Programming Interfaces, or APIs

16. Places to share Social bookmarking Social networking Photo sharing Video sites Widgets, blogs, embeddable content, oh my! (Email!??!)

17. But WHY share? Destroy the closed silo (network effects!) Share knowledge Become experts, THE reference source …traffic others? usability? user generated? for the LOLs?

18. Invisible Cheeseburger

19. One more on why Semi-permeable membranes of content Re-use it on Intranet Extranet Internet

20. Facebook Post to Facebook Import any RSS feeds as Facebook notes For your business/brand page or personal page Pictures, Links, Videos Mobile? SMS and facebook... Wait, wait...Facebook is for colleges, isn’t it?

21. Microblogging Mobile friendly Twitter Track anything with Twemes.com -- see http://twemes.com/cci2008 Jaiku Fire and forget: add a ton of RSS feeds and they will post automatically to Jaiku Pownce, etc.

22. Open APIs Application Programming Interfaces aka talk to your developer Flickr is a great example blog this many people use as main image storage also: hackers make cool tools and mashups

23. More Sharing? Shock us with tales of content re-use and re-purposing!

24. Open Source What is it? Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Source code available – and changeable and customizable Licensing Gnu Public License (GPL) Todd O’Neill talked about “free” tools…not free as in beer, but rather free as in freedom

25. Why Open Source? Open Source != Free it can actually be quite expensive… So why??! Some JL Schmidt quotes on Alfresco: “Help drive the software to a fit with your culture” “If it sucks, you fix it” Community Return on Investment (ROI)

26. Engage Open Source is actually all about sharing Hmm...or maybe not, but “scratching my own itch”, it looks like other people have the same pains does rebuilding the same stuff for every new tool ever sound like fun? Look for ways to coordinate ahead of time share features, upgrades, maintenance

27. I’m totally a vendor Except, I win if you pick my platform No single sourcing Can even choose to take it in house and do whatever you want with it depending on the license, you might need to share…with others, you could even turn it into a commercial product and NEVER share I’m a fan of sharing

28. Evangelism Explore open source Both the licenses and the tools Think about your needs, and your need to be evolved in product evolution, and in control of your own destiny Might need consulting to navigate… …there are commercial vendors in many areas, or at least support contracts

29. Drupal is Social Publishing Drupal is Social Publishing or maybe a Content Management System or maybe a Web Application Framework or maybe the next big, commodity Semantic Web platform It’s a community

30. P.S. We love other open source tools, too WordPress Alfresco Joomla Firefox? …the list goes on…

31. Open Data? What’s the license on your data?

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